[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the September 15 episode of Jeopardy!]
The primary week of Jeopardy! Season 40 closed out with a significant comeback for the primary winner of the Second Likelihood Event consisting of Season 37 gamers.
The three finalists from the primary week (of three) performed with cash banked from the September 14 sport. {Hardware} engineer Hari Parameswaran was in third with $1,600, magnetic engineer David Maybury in second with $6,728, and operations supervisor Jill Tucker within the lead with $19,600. These scores have been added to their September 15 earnings to find out the winner.
And since win or lose, this is able to be the contestants’ final day on Jeopardy! for some time, host Ken Jennings, in lieu of a daily interview, had every thank the folks they wished to in the midst of the primary spherical.
Hari thanked his mother and father, “who’ve been with me just about all the way in which, serving to me get right here, asking hundreds of hours’ price of questions. With out them, I’d not be right here for positive.” He additionally acknowledged “each trivia opponent I’ve performed and each teammate I’ve performed towards, [who have] all taught me a lot and with out them, I wouldn’t be right here.”
Jill echoed Hari in thanking household (in addition to pals and coworkers) earlier than including, “the entire crew of Jeopardy, who made it attainable for this expertise to occur and made it such an excellent one.” David, too, thanked “the Jeopardy! household” earlier than including that having his household within the viewers “has made the expertise full.”
After, Jennings famous, “I’m glad you guys obtained an opportunity to play once more out of the pandemic. These have been bizarre years.”
Hari was main (by simply $400 over David) on the finish of the Jeopardy! spherical, then he discovered each Every day Doubles — in succession — in Double Jeopardy!. After answering the primary incorrectly and dropping $5000, he was proper on the second (wagering $3000). He ended the spherical within the lead, with $19,200, to David’s $14,800 and Jill’s $7,800.
In Remaining Jeopardy!, the class was Astronomy and the clue learn, “The one dwarf plant positioned within the interior photo voltaic system, it’s named for an historic deity of planting & harvests.” Each Hari and David have been right (Ceres). Jill ended Week 1 finals with a two-day complete of $27,400 (and earned $10,000), with David in second with $36,328 (and earned $20,000), and Hari, after a comeback from the primary day, received with a complete of $36,800. He superior to the Champions Wildcard competitors later this fall.
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